A diary of your location - recording your travel journeys using GPS tracks
06/19/19 • 43 min
Esplorio automatically maps your journeys as you move around the world. The idea being that by mapping path we take when we travel we can build a much more nuanced record of our travels. The exact route we took through Rome, where we got on and off the bus. All these little details are part of a journey but not necessarily worth recording on their own. This is the kind of tracking that we will see more of in the geospatial world and it illustrates the power of location. MapScaping.com
Esplorio automatically maps your journeys as you move around the world. The idea being that by mapping path we take when we travel we can build a much more nuanced record of our travels. The exact route we took through Rome, where we got on and off the bus. All these little details are part of a journey but not necessarily worth recording on their own. This is the kind of tracking that we will see more of in the geospatial world and it illustrates the power of location. MapScaping.com
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